France-Update 20=no texture

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:09 am

new sea colour/texture
added the jet planes, i will add more stuff like that if u want!

do u like the border now?
any other improvments?

Skittles! · Post by **Skittles!** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:35 am

I don't like where the dark blue is next to the ocean. Maybe change it around with Yellow?
I'm also not too keen on the light red..

Why did you add the Jets?

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:54 am

changed about the colours
softer colours

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:55 am

Skittles! wrote:Why did you add the Jets?

dunno, i wanted 2 try putting some on.

do u like them?

Skittles! · Post by **Skittles!** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:04 am

spinwizard wrote:
Skittles! wrote:Why did you add the Jets?

dunno, i wanted 2 try putting some on.

do u like them?

Hmm, I don't think it fits with the map.
The lighter blue is too light. It burns my eyes.

cairnswk · Post by **cairnswk** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:10 am

SpinWizard....I'd like to make some suggestions if I can...not criticisms but things I feel can be improved...it would be more favourable to attend to them now...

* I am not sure about the additions of the concords... i do understand they have french relevance however. Can you explain? Do you think this map needs additional imagery?

* I feel your legend is now having serious issues - i can hardly read Limousin and Med is not entirely clear, Normandie sits in the border of the legend (a graphical no-no), and they are not all left justified with a little margin between the start of their names and the border of the legned.

* most of your district borders appear slightly blurred - good - but between Champagne and Yonne there is something too thick happening there near Vosges

* I still think the background image in the legend is too hidden - i can't make out what it even is, though previously you have explained a king or suchlike.

* can you examine the thick border around the whole country - in places it looks thicker than in others

* your signature is too prominent and sits over Manche - not a good look. The wave of the tri colour opposes the horizontal wave you have in the title. Can you offer an alternative to that and see what it looks like.

* does yellow and light blue have textured background? they look different from the other districts.

* have you tried turning some of your mountains around and having some with small peak facing left and right - you know a bit of a mixture.

* to me the colours are fine

Keep going. Clink! Clink! Soon you'll be dancing.... $\:D/$

Hope this helps!

sam_levi_11 · Post by **sam_levi_11** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:37 am

cairnswk wrote:SpinWizard....I'd like to make some suggestions if I can...not criticisms but things I feel can be improved...it would be more favourable to attend to them now...

* I am not sure about the additions of the concords... i do understand they have french relevance however. Can you explain? Do you think this map needs additional imagery?

* I feel your legend is now having serious issues - i can hardly read Limousin and Med is not entirely clear, Normandie sits in the border of the legend (a graphical no-no), and they are not all left justified with a little margin between the start of their names and the border of the legned.

* most of your district borders appear slightly blurred - good - but between Champagne and Yonne there is something too thick happening there near Vosges

* I still think the background image in the legend is too hidden - i can't make out what it even is, though previously you have explained a king or suchlike.

* can you examine the thick border around the whole country - in places it looks thicker than in others

* your signature is too prominent and sits over Manche - not a good look. The wave of the tri colour opposes the horizontal wave you have in the title. Can you offer an alternative to that and see what it looks like.

* does yellow and light blue have textured background? they look different from the other districts.

* have you tried turning some of your mountains around and having some with small peak facing left and right - you know a bit of a mixture.

* to me the colours are fine

Keep going. Clink! Clink! Soon you'll be dancing.... $\:D/$

Hope this helps!

i agree with all of thios, exept the concorde bit, i couldnt care less about that

also, see bordeaux, the line running north goes into charente

Wisse · Post by **Wisse** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:24 am

the jets looks good
the blue is to light
and some borders are still not good, if you want me to show them all i will do that

Ruben Cassar · Post by **Ruben Cassar** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:32 am

The fighter planes are out of place in this map. Remove them or at least use French fighters!

The black borders are too thick and messy.

Change the textures of the territories and the sea.

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:10 am

i think i made all major updates...

new better borders
new legend(simpleistic)
more new colours
changed my sig.

are there any changes u mentioned that i have not made?

Wisse · Post by **Wisse** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:27 am

still a too flashy color in the south

Ruben Cassar · Post by **Ruben Cassar** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:50 am

Ruben Cassar wrote:The fighter planes are out of place in this map. Remove them or at least use French fighters!

The black borders are too thick and messy.

Change the textures of the territories and the sea.

boberz · Post by **boberz** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:53 am

a few co-ordinates are off especially orne oise metz and herault

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:58 am

boberz wrote:a few co-ordinates are off especially orne oise metz and herault

the cordenents r not done yet, the numbers are mack's while the code is done/waiting 2 b done

boberz · Post by **boberz** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:23 am

kk that made me look noobish the sorry

cairnswk · Post by **cairnswk** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:05 pm

spinwizard wrote:i think i made all major updates...
new better borders
new legend(simpleistic)
more new colours
changed my sig.
are there any changes u mentioned that i have not made?

SpinWizard...vast improvement...keep going! Onward Upward

* Pyrenees is too bright in that yellowish lime green
* Med in the legend appears to be the same colour as the moutains not of the riviera
* signature looks much better - just move it slightly right to line up with the front of france
* region borders still messy

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:11 pm

cairnswk wrote:
spinwizard wrote:i think i made all major updates...
new better borders
new legend(simpleistic)
more new colours
changed my sig.
are there any changes u mentioned that i have not made?

SpinWizard...vast improvement...keep going! Onward Upward
* Pyrenees is too bright in that yellowish lime green
* Med in the legend appears to be the same colour as the moutains not of the riviera
* signature looks much better - just move it slightly right to line up with the front of france
* region borders still messy

i have ran out of colours for med/pyrennes. any ideas? i will work on the borders!

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:26 pm

I agree on the Pyrenees, needs a new color. Maybe try a grey/silver, something lighter than the unused land area, but not too bright.

I'd also give the ocean it's own texture so it isn't the same as the land.

Qwert · Post by **Qwert** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:43 pm

can you put map in present page.

Bad Speler · Post by **Bad Speler** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:12 pm

Point one id like to make is your graphics are improving, eep it up!

All references i am making are based of of this map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:France_departements_regions_narrow.jpg

Corse looks a bit odd to me, the inset is a bit out of place, and corse has been rotated 90 degrees, i realise that may be a space issue but see if there is anyway to fix it.

Youve made and odd split at Pyrenees (wich is actually spelt Pyrénées), It seems youve merged the Aquitaine and Pyrénées provinces, however the Territories of Dordgne and Lot also belong to these two provinces. Also Hérault is actually right where you put Gard, they are actually border territories. A more appropriate name for it would be Aveyron, but that is also a part of the Pyrénées province.

I will comment more soon.

sam_levi_11 · Post by **sam_levi_11** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:40 pm

corse has been discussed at length and this is the best solution

Bad Speler · Post by **Bad Speler** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:13 pm

i realise that, perhaps i acidently emphasized the wrong point, the main point i wanted to bring up was that it seems graphically out of place.

Gozar · Post by **Gozar** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:48 pm

What if you stood Corse up the right way, and just made it disporpotionitly smaller?

(I know, I know, enough about the island, but figured I would throw it out)

Ruben Cassar · Post by **Ruben Cassar** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:09 pm

Gozar wrote:What if you stood Corse up the right way, and just made it disporpotionitly smaller?

(I know, I know, enough about the island, but figured I would throw it out)

I have always thought that by rotating continental France slightly to the right you would create more space in the lower right corner to fit Corse in an upright position as it is in real life.

If the map maker is willing to experiment this I think the result would be much better.

luckiekevin · Post by **luckiekevin** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:48 pm

the fighter jets don't work.. what do they have to do with France? they are American. Why not incorporate something French? Or something relative to French Military?